United States plans to bump up aid to Jordan

Jordan's King Abdullah meets with U.S. President Barack Obama.
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The United States plans to significantly increase the amount of aid given to Jordan from $660 million to $1 billion a year to pay for the cost of fighting ISIS and to host refugees from Iraq and Syria.

Congress must approve the aid, Reuters reports, and an agreement was signed before ISIS released the video Tuesday that shows Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh being burned alive. The U.S. State Department plans to give $1 billion per year for fiscal years 2015, 2016, and 2017, and said in a statement that "the increase for the period of FY 2015 to FY 2017 is designed to address Jordan's short-term, extraordinary needs, including those related to regional instability and rising energy costs."

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Catherine Garcia

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.